Gordon Brown must increase social housing spending by billions of pounds or miss his ambitious house building targets, a chorus of MPs, housing associations and councils has warned.

Witness Protection

“An awareness week is a good way of focusing on the problem, but domestic violence can happen any week, any day or any night, 365 days a year.

Becoming homeless, not being able to cope or receive help when needed and not having enough money to live on.

Councils must attract investors to develop a social care market that meets the needs of all